25-year ministry to internationals carries women’s influence worldwide
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BP)–Ministering to internationals from around the world isn’t solely a matter of fulltime missionary work on an international field such as Africa, Romania or Chile. Twenty-five years ago, a small group of Baptist women found an international mission field in central Arkansas. Because of an influx of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees who […]
Parents of missionaries begin praying, bonding
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BP)–Eileen Kirby is thankful more prayer now is being lifted to God for her son and daughter-in-law.Ben and Charlotte Kirby surely appreciate it as well, as Southern Baptist International Mission Board missionaries in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.Sharing with 30 other Arkansas parents at the organizational meeting of the Arkansas Missionary Parents Fellowship, Eileen […]
7/17/97 90-year-old church staffer honored for 60-year tenure
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BP)–Prayer and a willingness to “stick with it” are the keys which 90-year-old Audrey Nell Cobine attributes to her 60-year tenure as financial associate for First Baptist Church, Little Rock, Ark. “I would be astonished if there were another individual who had served in a Southern Baptist church for 60 years,” remarked […]
It’s a giant step beyond America’s walking pastime
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BP)–Although “America is walking all over the place,” Randy Sprinkle noted, “There is a greater movement — and it is walking and praying.”The director of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board’s international prayer strategy office led a “Prayer Walk Practicum,” sponsored by the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, at Immanuel Baptist Church, Little […]
